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soot. ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH PART TWO ST. LOUIS, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 6, 1946 PAGES 1 4B IU1 Here They Are The League Champion Redbirds One and All CRONIN PADS HUE "Sfd FILLET SI III I- HIDED A)' jdi- 4ilp BATTERS FDR LEFTY By Bob Broeg If his club's bats are as silent as Manager Joe Cronin Is about hij pitching selection for today's opening Boston power-packed Red Sox won bother Howard Pollet as mucli as the Cardinal lefthander's unpredictable back. A- 1 Afe Afar il 1-7 7 wW Pftfa vFr-- csl i-n "fHJttr; Lj V-rvW fej J' fMW kJ I i 4 -v A Early yesterday afternoon, while the Cardinals were taking a light workout missed by several players given oral excuse slips, Pollet reported himself physically fit for the major task of trying to unravel the Red Sox.

But Cronin just reported, period. The rock-jawed manager of the American Lengue champions said that if Pollet pitched for the Red-birds as scheduled, veteran money player Pinky Hlgglns would be at third base, right-handed hitting Tom McBride in right field and probably Roy Partee. another righthanded batter, behind the plate. Gerardo Pasquel Here. I liui wronin wouian name a pitcher for all the pesos in the oank account or uerardo Pasquel, one of the brothers Mexican and a series sightseer who watched both pennant winners in their final drills.

Cronin's aversion against naming pitching names was believed to be a desire to make certain no member of his staff, labeled as a starter, pitched and tossed restlessly in bed, worrying over the big job. So apparently not until today's pre-game batting practice at the earliest will spectators favored with series tickets know the identity of Boston's pitcher. However, in the judgment of men closest to Cronin, the answer to the riddle is tall, dark and handsome, meaning Cecil (Tex.) Hughson, a 20-game winner. There is, of course, no tougher spot than the pitching assignment in the opening game of a world series, unless it be that of the choice for the final contest of a seven-game blue-ribbon classic. Among American Leaguers who The entire Cardinal family is pictured here.

Left to right: Top row NIPPY JONES. DICK SISLER, CLYDE KLUTTZ, HOWARD KRIST, DEL RICE, KEN BURKHARDT. HARRISON WEAVER (trainer), TED WILKS, JOE GARAGIOLA, HARRY BRECHEEN, JOFFRE CROSS. Second row FRED SCHMIDT, WALTER SESSI, JOHNNY BEAZLEY, RED SCHOENDIENST. HARRY WALKER, BILL ENDICOTT, HOWARD POLLET, ERV DUSAK, GEORGE MUNGER, JOHN GRODZICKI and RED BARRETT.

Bottom row MARTY MARION, WHITEY KUROWSKI, STAN MUSIAL, AL BRAZLE, COACH BUZZY WARES, MANAGER EDDIE DYER, COACH MIKE GONZALEZ, BUSTER ADAMS, TERRY MOORE, ENOS SLAUGHTER and MURRY DICKSON. Seated in front are BOB SCANLON and EDDIE DYER bat boys. Ohio State Gives SCORES Perry Moss Leads Illini To First Victory Over Purdue in 27 Years, 43-7 CHAMTAIGN, 111., Oct. 5 (UP) Illinois scored on its first play of the game and then rambled to a 43-to-7 victory over Purdue today to become major contender for the Western Conference championship. That Was 13 Years Ago Now Dwight Eddelman of Illinois had It's Freshman Dyer on Other Side the best running average, with 65 yards on four tries, including a 45-yard touchdown sprint.

But the work-horse was Quarterback Perry Moss, who carried the ball 10 times for a gain of 48 yards, in addition to passing and directing the Illinois attack. Moss passed for one touchdown, scored two himself on line plunges and set up a fourth marker. It was Moss who passed to End Isaiah Owens for a touchdown on the mini's first offensive play of the game. Then Illinois switched to a run ning attack. Starting from their own 48, the Illini ran up three first downs to put the ball on the Pur- Continued on Next Page.

game of the 1946 World Series, Probable Opening Came Batting Orders llEn SOX CARDINALS McBride rf Pchhy i.Stt), sit Moore cf niM'glo cf Musial lb Williams If SI'ghter rf York lh Ktir'ski 3b Jloerr 2b Git'glnU Hlgglns Walker If Partee Marlon umpires rVsllanfant and Bar- lick (M. U); Hubbard and Brry I.A.I.). know him best, Hughson ratea higher than a scalper's prices for series tickets. For instance, Steva O'Neill, manager of Detroit's de throned American Leazue and world's champions, yesterday praised the rawboned Texan as "ranking right up there with New- houser and Feller. One other factor.

Cronin's si lence to the contrary, points th divining rod of beforehand guesses at a choice of Huthson for th No. 1 Red Sox role. And that on t.ikes you back to 1933, whea Cronin was a 28-year-old freshman major league manager and ni: Washington Senators won a pennant. In the 33 series against the New York Giants, Cronin ignored Earl Whitehill, a 22-game lefthanded star, and Alvin Crowder, right-handed winner of 24, and started southpaw Walter Stewart, a former Brownie and that year an author of 15 triumphs. Bill Terry went with Carl Hubhell.

his meil ticket, and Stewart failed to finish the third inning of a game won by the Giants, 6 to Series Facts By the A twitted Preis. Participants Boston Reel So fA.t.) sHS 104, lost nil; and St. Leois Cardinal (N.L.I on OH. lost 08. Series Best lour oirt ef eevea leasee.

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13 and la il necessary, Soerte-man's Para. St. Louis. Odds (Bettlne Commissioner J. Carra.

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Time of parne. 1 p.m. Brooklyn agents who had spied on Boston without benefit of cloak and dagger. Dyer said. "So if we get the devil kicked out of us, we won't have any alibi, though I think they'll know they've been in a battle," tht Cardinals' skipper added in good humor.

Dyer read telegrams and letters of congratulations while answering questions. A wire from Boh O'Farrell, who was a teammate on the Cardinals' first championship club in 1926 and then was Dyer's manager the next season, particularly pleased the drawling son of the South. But the happiest moment for him yesterday was when his plav-ers presented Dyer with a Swiss wrist watch on which was engraved "To Eddie Dyer, In highest esteem, from his 1946 Cardinals." Five Ordered Not to Work. The entire squad attended th meeting, but Red SchoendiensL, Marty Marlon. Terry Moore, Harry Brccheen and Murry Dickson were ordered not to work.

The practice was purely voluntary, anyway. The Red Sox drill was featured by a fuss over Ted Williams's now-famous right elbow, which the Boston slugger mischievously exhibited to all with a grinned, "See my red splotch." Mr. Williams definitely will be a lineup that tentativelv will Include five .300 hitters Dom Di-Maggio. Johnny Pesky, Partee. McBride and guess who.

For the Cardinals, who have three .300 hitters in Stan Musial, George Ku-rowski and Enos Slaughter, Harry Walker will be the left fielder and Joe Garaglol.i the catcher. That is, if after all Cronin'i evasion, not to mention one left-handed report that lefthanded Mickey Harris will pitch for Boston, the Red Sox starter really turns out to be a guy named Hughson. 3 (0) a xar fid Park Rates Hall Two games later Whitehill shut out the Giants on four hits but, because his first start was so de layed, he was unable to get an other shot in a series won by New York, four games to one, with two Giant victories in extra innings. So 13 years and many dis appointments afterward, Cronin has brought another club into a world series, this time with a freshman Edic Dyer on the other side of the fence. Dyer has named his top pitcher.

And, unless his associates ore full of their own Boston baked beans, Cronin will counter with his strong-armed righthander, the Red Sox pitcher who hurled the most innings and the one the manager mentioned in a recent unguarded moment as "the guy I always started in the toughest spots." Cronin's reticence extended to predictions there just aren't any today, Mrs. Grimes but Dyer went so far as to say that If the Cardinals played as capably as in the National League playoff against Brooklyn, the Redbirds might make the odds of 7 to 20, favoring the Red Sox, appear out of line. No Alibi for Redbirds. One thing the Cardinals' manager emphasized was that the Red-birds would have no alibi. The Red Sox were scouted thoroughly, just as Cronin and Company sized up St.

Louis's ninth National League pennant winner. At yesterday's clubhouse meeting, Tony Kaufman and Ken Penner, Cardinal scouts, passed along intelligence picked up while trailing the Sox. Their reports gibed with others generously submitted by Maybe I exftir a innings Form Frequently Fickle In Baseball's Big Show. THERE was less time for the ponderous comparisons between the contending clubs in the world series this year. Nobody knew whether it would be Leo Durocher's motley Dodgers or the Redbirds of Eddie Dyer.

But in the intervening time, since the Cardinals clinched, many volumes have been written, comparing the teams. Some prognosticators compare offense, defense, general strategy, and then position by position measure Musial with York, Williams with Dusak, Marion with Pesky, etc. Then at the finish conclusions are drawn. You can throw most of that stuff out the window when the blue chips are down and two ball clubs are striving for baseball's highest honors, the big pot of gold. World series seldom go according to form.

You have big surprises. A Tommy Thcve-now may outbat a Babe Ruth, an underdog Cardinal team may upset a powerful Yankee machine. There have been many upsets in the course of world series competition. An upset, you know, is anything you didn't predict. Thus an upset in Boston might be according to form in St.

Louis, or at least to St. Louis fans. We've seen enough world series to know the folly of predicting. History's pages are full of words telling what has happened. We've never seen predictions recorded in the record.

Anything can happen and guesses are only that and very unimportant. Dyer to Walk Williams Only 'When It's Thing to Do. YER, discussing his strategy for the series, his pitching plans, was asked if he would solve the Ted Williams threat by passing the home run hitter regularly. "No, we'll treat him like any other good hitter," Dyer replied. "If he comes up with men on second and third, or a man or men in scoring position with first base open, certainly we'll pass him.

But when common sense strategy calls for pitching to him, we'll pitch to Williams. He's a good hitter. When he's hot he can beat you all by him self. Ilea that good, we hope that we can pitch to him so he won't hurt us too much." There won't be any drastic shift with Williams at the plate. The infield and outfield will shift toward right field, just as the Cardinal defenders shift the other way whenever they pitch to Ernie The shortstop will play behind second base, the second baseman well over toward first.

But there'll be no shift like the one Lou Bou-dreau used with the Indians against the Boston slugger. "If he beats us, he'll beat us hitting too hard for us," Dyer explained. "He won't beat us with anything that an ordinary, normal defense would handle." It is natural, of course, for the Continued on Page 3, Column 2. Coast Surprise; Shuts Out U.SX. ANGELES, Oct.

5 (UP) Ohio State's rebounding Buckeyes wrecked University of Southern California, 21-0, today with a carrying fullback who scored three touchdowns in their intersectional classic before more than 80,000 fans. Joe Whisler, a 207-pound mass of shoulders, took the Trojans apart and his methodical team mate, John Stungis, added the extra points that completed a mis erable afternoon for the defend ing champions of the West. The renewal of the Buckeye- Trojan rivalry, suspended since 1942 by wartime restrictions, put U.S.C. down in the heap for later Rose Bowl selection and raised once-tied Ohio State as a national grid power. The Buckeyes looked more like Bearcats when they began ripping the U.S.C.

line almost from the opening kickoff. Five quick first downs paid off In exactly 12 minutes. Before the afternoon was over the Ohioans had 12 first downs and twice the Trojans' net yardage. Whi.stlcr bumped across for (he first touchdown from the one-foot line and Stungis converted. U.S.C.

was baffled by the tricky Ohio State 10-man shift and couldn't muster a first down in the initiejl period. From this unhappy showing the trojans battled back in the second period with more of their old power. Substitute Halfback Don Doll was a consistent ground-gainer, but was unable to find a scoring punch. Both teams had the ball mainly in their own territory until half time. Neither team clicked well in the third period, but U.S.C.'s quarterback Mickey McCardle blundered a pass Into the hands of Ohio's Tom James on the Tro jan 45-yard line and James reeled on to Troy's 24.

Within seconds Whisler scored standing up. Stun gis converted again. The Trojans gave their support- Continued on Next Fage. Definitely HOtsMW FOOTBALL LOCAL. John Burroughs 35 Kansas City Pembroke Prineipia ft.

13, John Bur roughs O. McBrida 28, North Side 7. Princfpia Academy 0, Foxana 0. Princlpia College 7, Shurtletf 7. Princioia John Burroughs s'' 0.

Staunton Zli, Western M. A. Zl, Welhton 32, Webster Groves 8. EAST. Alfred 24, Hsrtwlrk 0.

Army 4H. Cornell 21. Bates 25. Trinity O. Boston U.

21, American International Buffalo 2R, Rensselaer 13. Bergen 33. Trenton O. Clarkson 13. Norwich 0.

Colby 13, Vermont 7. Concord 21, Shephard State 7. Columbia 23. Navy 14. Connecticut Stato 2H, Worcester Tech Conn.

2.T. Springfield 0. Clarion oO, Edlnboro 0. Dartmouth 20, Syracuse 14. Delaware R3, Randolph Macon O.

Dickinson 7, Lehigh 6. Drexet 18, Urinus 6. Geneva 12, n. Geo. Washington 37.

Kings Point 18. Harvard 41. Tufts O. Haverford 20, Susquehanna 6. Holy Cross Hi.

Oetroit 14. Hofstra 14, Monte I sir Teachers 6. Juniata 6, Westminster (i (tie). Lockhaven 20, Bloomsburg 12. Mansfield (Pa.) 14, Millersville 7.

Massachusetts State 11, Bowdoin 8. Morgan State 22, Delaware State 6. Muhlenberg 30, Albright O. Navy Plebes 33, Greenbrier M.A. 7.

New Hampshire 2.1, Rhode Island 13, New York U. If). Brooklyn 8. Northeastern 13, Maine 7. Otterbeio IX, Denison 13.

Potomac State 7, Morris Harvey O. Prnn fill, Lafayette O. Penn State 4K, Bueknell 0. Princeton 33, Brown 12. Rochester 31), Union 14.

0. fL of Fame kwwwwv embarked on baseball seas, he was backed by no massive bankroll, such as has supported his rivals of the current campaign, the Rex Sox. Owner Yawkey has done most of his building by buying. They say he let go some $3,500,000 to finally attain his goal as pennant winner. When Breadon took over the Cards the organization was $175,000 in debt and within nix years It had become a world championship team at he expense of the de luxe Yankee machine, put together by the Ituppert millions.

Once Sportsman's Park saw a world championship played by TWO local clubs. Only New York and Chicago can say as much. Today, the battle at Spoilsman's Park will be between two opposite ideas in the method of building pennant winners one is to grow your own players, the other Is to buy them ready-polished. The It rend on plan clicked In about six seasons, the Yawkey pian required about 15 years. The ownership of Sportsman's Park has again changed hands.

Showing confidence in the future of his team the Browns' president, Richard C. Mucker-man, recently bought the property from the Ball estate and will further improve it. SPORTSMAN'S PARK is now the in existence of all those still functioning as major league baseball Its use as a ball park ceased for a number of years, when Von Der Ahe built a new park at Vandeventer and Natural Bridge Road It was later known as Athletic Park and was Continued on Tage 3, Column 8. Rutgers 63, Johns Hopkins O. St.

Boneaventure 33, Seranton 7. St. Lawrence 39, Lowell Textile O. Slippery Rock 7, Indiana (Pa. I Teachers 6 Shippcnshurg Teachers 13, Kutztown 6.

Union 20, Bethany 6. U. S. Coast Guard 14, Amherst 13. Western Maryland 18.

Uettysburg fi. West Va. State 21. Howard 13. West Chester 2U, New York C.

C. 0. Wesleyan 2H, Swarthmore 0, Williams 12, M-ddlebury i. Yale 27, Colgate H. MIDDLE WEST.

Augsburg 8, St. Johns si. Augustana 13. Carthage O. Baldwin-Wallace 32, Akron O.

Beloit 6, Monmouth O. Boston College 34, Michigan State 20. Bowling Green (0.) 13, Ball State 0. Bradley 2lj, Arkansas State 2. Butler 13, Indiana State 7.

Cape Girardeau 20, Carbondale 13. Carroll 33. MacAlesW 0. Cedarville 14, Canterbury Central Mich. 20, Eastern Mich.

7. Cincinnati Marshall. 14, Coo 10, Luther (5. Concordia 27, Elmhurst 13. Dubuque 43, Penn (la.) College A.

Eau Claire 31. Michigan Tech. 2. Eureka (III.) 21. Aurora fi.

Evansville 20, Illinois Wesleyan t. ,3 Findlay 27, Wooster 8. jfi Ha-din J. C. 19.

Tarleton 0. Illinois 43, Purdue 7. Illinois Normal 18. DePauw 0. Indiana 21, Minnesota O.

Iowa State 20, Iowa State Teachers 18. Kansas 14, Wlrhita 7. Kearney State 14. Chadron 0. Kent State 20, John Carroll 7.

Kirksville 2S, Parsons tj. Kno 18, Grlnnell Lawrence 34, Carleton 13. Lincoln HH, St. Paul O. Lincoln U.

(Jeff. City) 14, Louisville A Mankato Teacher 0, buluth Teachers 0. Merletta 12. Capital II. Marquette Teachers 2,1.

Northland Course. Miami (O.i 3.1, Dayton O. Michigan 14. Iowa 7. Morris College 7, Ft.

Valley State 2. Muikingum IS, Heidelberg O. Northern Michigan 2ti, Northland (Wis.) 0 Northwestern Okie. 14, Bethel 6. Northwestern 28, Wisconsin O.

Notre Dome 33, Pittsburgh 0. Nebraska 31, Kansas State 0. Ohio U. 2ft, Western Michigan 7. Oklahoma City 74, Missouri Mines 6.

Oshkosh State 27, Stevens Point 13. Rensselaer (Ind.) 7, Valparaiso O. R. Pon 6. Cornell (la.) 8.

Rio Grande 28, Rosa Poly 6. River Falls 20, Stout O. St. Benedict's 18, College of Emporia 0. St.

Johns Military 13, Lores 12. Southern Normal 13. Sioux Falls O. Stephen Austin 20, Austin Coliae 7. Thiel 14.

Hiram 8. Toledo 42, Case 14. Virginia I. C. 18.

Ely J. C. 0. Wabash 22, Franklin 7. Wayne 13.

Ohio Wesleyen 0. Wayne Teachers 12, South Dakota ft. Wrntworth Milittary Academy 20, New Mex Ico Militery Institute 8. Wheaton (III.) 8, Macomb Teachers 0. SOUTH.

Alabama 14, South Carolina 6. Appalachian 411, Elon O. Auburn 2i, Furman 8. California (Pa.) 21, West Liberty 0, Carsoz Newman 27, Emory Henry 8. Catawba in, High Point 7.

Davidson f)4, Wofford 0. East Carolina Tchrs. 8, Atlantic Christ. 8. Georgia Tech 32.

Virginia M.I. 8. Hampton Inst. 33, Johnson C. Smith 0.

Kentucky 70, Xavier 0. Knoxville 7, So. Carolina State 7. L. S.

U. 13, State 8. Maryville 10, Centre (I. Mississippi A. and M.

1, Alcorn I I. North Carolina State 14. Clemson 7. North Carolina College 10, Bluefirld 0. Pensacola Navy 411, Naval Air T.T.C.

0. Presbyterian 12, Srwanee 7. Shaw 14, AT College 13. Southern U. 38.

Grambllng 0. Tennessee 12, Duke 7. Tulane 27, Florida 13. Vandrrbilt 7, Mississippi 0. Virginia P.

I. 21, Virginia 21. Wah. Lee 41, Hampden Sydney M. West Virnlnie 42, Wayneburg Western Carolina Tchs.

33, Tusculuns 8. Wllberforca 22, Tellehatte A. M. 14. William and Mary SI.

Citadel 12. SOUTHWEST. Arkansas 34, Texas Christian 14. East Texas State 7, Howard Payne 7. Hardln-Simmons 31.

San Jose 7. McMurray 8, Sulross Teach'rs 2. Magnolia A. A M. 10, Hendrlx 0.

N. T. A. C. 2ft.

Decatur O. Oklahoma 10. Texas A. and M. 7.

Rice 4H, Southwestern (Tx.) O. Sam Houston 7. Corpus Chisll Naval 0. Texas A4, Oklahoma A. and M.

8. Tcxai Tech 7. Southern Methodist 0. MISSOURI VALLEY Tulsa 48. Drake 13.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN. Colorado 8, Utah State 0. Colorado A. and M. 7.

Wyoming O. Colorado College 7, Montana State 7. Idaho Southern 10. Carlsbad (Cel.) 18. Western State 10, Hastings 7.

FAR WEST. Arizona State (tempo) 13. Pepperdine 12. Arlrone State 8, Fresno Reserves 8. California Polytech 21, Sen Diego State 13 Gilo J.

C. 21, New- Mexico Stato Teachers 12. Nevada 33, Santa Clara 7. Ohio State 21. Southern California 0.

Oregon 14, California 13. Oreoon State 33, Portland O. Stanford 33, San Francisco 7. U. C.

L. A. 30, Wasninnton 13. Utah 14. Arizona 7.

Washington State 32. Idehe O. Wllllamette (Ore.) 2I, U. at British Columbia 13 PRO RESULTS Los Angeles Dons 21, Chicago Rockets 9. It was the first time Illinois had triumphed over a Purdue eleven in 27 years, and the Illini did it up brown.

They scored in every period, going through the line and around the ends with equal case. Purdue did stop Illinois' main running star. Buddy Young, but his mates were more than the Boilermakers could handle. The Illini held a clear advantage In every department of play. They piled up 15 first dfwns to the Boilermakers' 12, gained 240 yards to Purdue's 69 and completed five of 12 forward passes for 92 yards against Purdue's gain of 88 yards on passes.

Young Held to 40 Yard. Young was held to a net gain ff 40 yards on 12 tries. Halfback WHEN the Cardinals and 1 Red Sox hear the call of -play ball" in the first 1946 world series game here this afternoon, it will be the thirteenth time a world champion-nhip has been fought for on the ancient Sportsman's Park diamond. It will be the first time a Boston club has battled for top honors here. That'll an Imposing Shlhe Tark, the lair of the great baseball genius Connie Mack, has been the battleground for only eight world series.

John Mc-Graw's Polo Grounds, as long as be reigned there, sponsored only 12 title series. And even the glamorous Yankees, backed by the Ruppert millions, have entertained league champions on only 14 occasion one more than the record of Sportsman's I'ark. In order to pad our record for Sportsman's Park which bore that name and was used for baseball purposes hack In 1871 we had to draw upon the first world series group of four world championships, played st the Grand and Dodier grounds in 1885-6-7-8 tagainst Chicago (2), Detroit and New York). Then Chris Von Der Ahe and Charles Coml5key (captain manager of the Browns) produced -four American Association champions. Thee world series were not played under National Agreement conditions.

Kut that they were regarded as "world series' and advertised as such the newspapers of the day reveal 7h modern world championships differ only In that beginning with 1905 they bore the official stamp. Cards Figure In Nine World Series. THE Red Sox-Cardinals encounters will be the ninth St. Louis world championship competition tinder the ownership Sportsman's iMiiiissl si if I a rmmirtiJ Began CHRIS VON DER AHE, as he looked at the height of his baseball fame back in the 'eighties. His Erowns, playing at Sportsman's Park, took part in four consecutive world series starting in 1885, against the Chicago (2).

Detroit and New York teams. His teams won one, tied one and lost two world series. of Sam Breadon and that Is a record "seldom equalled, since It all happened within a space of two decades. And you have to hand it to President Singin' Sam, of the Redbirds, In that when he He 7.